This document summarizes the development of a web-based game called Junk: Battles. It discusses the game's prototype and launch timelines, technical details like languages used and code size, pre-launch goals and challenges, post-launch metrics showing popularity without marketing, ongoing issues like server problems, and lessons learned along with future plans. The game achieved popularity through word of mouth alone, with over 4,500 users in 80 countries playing 75,000 battles despite no marketing budget. However, developing a web game presented many technical problems to solve with a small team.

2. What is Junk: Battles?

10. Post-mortem (pōst-môr ' təm) adj. Latin; “after-death” A method of getting free publicity for your game at conferences and in Game Developer Magazine.

11. Post-vitam (pōst-vī′tăm) adj. Latin; “after-life” A method of getting free publicity for your game at conferences and in Game Developer Magazine.

13. Timeline 2008| 2009 Prototype June November Product August Open ß Launch September Closed ß June

14. Game Data 4 Languages (at least) 154 Database Tables 79,200 lines of code 68 man months (30 production & design) (as of last week)

15. Pre-Launch

16. The Good Unified Vision Fun Creative Original Small scale Hardcore games For casual play

18. The Good Unified Vision Battle Track System

19. + =

20. The Good Unified Vision Battle Track System Tracking everything

22. The Bad When do we launch?

24. The Bad When do we launch? Javascript

26. The Bad When do we launch? Javascript

27. The Ugly Multiple Technologies

29. Post-Launch

30. The Good People love it! 4500+ users 80 countries 75,000+ battles $0 Marketing!

32. The Good People Love it! Community Involvement

34. The Good People Love it! Community Involvement Evolve & adjust

35. Biweekly Update Breakdown

36. The Bad Apache Web Server

37. PAIN

38. The Bad Apache Web Server So many features, so little programmers

40. The Ugly The Internet

42. In Conclusion… Webgame = Easy? NO! Just different types of problems Huge opportunity Lots of lessons learned

43. What’s next? World Map Quests Story Part Mods … .?

45. Contact & Questions E-mail: [email_address] Follow my coding adventures at: http://www.twitter.com/bluntcoder